Thursday, November 13, 2014

Brad Klausen Black Keys & Widespread Panic Posters Release Details

After being delayed by the US Postal Systems online shipping updates with his store, Brad Klausen is releasing his two recent eye popping posters.

First up is the Black Keys poster for Salt Lake City it is 16.4" x 24", 7 Colors signed and numbered out of 190

From Brad: “Here's the poster for the Salt Lake City show on the 12th.
It's mainly based off the lyric "every now and then I see your face from
way back when and I explode" from the song "In Our Prime"... that and
the album to me had kind of a cool psychedelic rock vibe, really dig
Weight of Love, the whole record had a very interesting vibe and while
listening to the record this is what it made me draw.”

Next is his Widespread Panic poster for the show in Grand Prairie, Texas. The poster is 15.4" x 24.14", 6 Colors (cyan is metallic) signed and numbered out of 87

Brad on the design: "

my introduction to Widespread Panic was from my friends in college.
Going to school in Denver had this great perk of getting to see
concerts at Red Rocks, which is hands down one of the best places in the
world to see a show. At the time I wasn't familiar with Widespread and
wasn't interested in going to see them live, but my friends were big
fans... and they were able to lure me to tagging along to the shows by
saying it was at Red Rocks and we could take mushrooms. And that's all
they had to say. You had me at mushrooms. Red rocks and psychedelic mind
expanding drugs with live music under the stars... I'm in! That first
time I saw them at Red Rocks was quite a trip... not being that familiar
with the band's catalog of songs and given their tendency to jam for
lengthy periods within a song it allowed my mind to just wander to
heights and places it's never been... when things would start to get
intense and overwhelming to the point I felt I was about to crack and
lose it, the band would break out of it's jam and get back into the
song, and that would bring me back to earth and remind me that I was at a
concert watching a band and that everything was not only going to be
okay, but that everything was awesome... that process happen throughout
the whole night, it was a truly illuminating, enlightening night in
which I was given a chance to really explore and contemplate.

In
alchemy, there's a part of the process which is referred to as "the
peacock's tail". Now most people think alchemy is just a foolish process
of trying to turn physical lead into gold. Alchemy is far far more then
that sound bite we've all been conditioned to think in order to down
play the significance of the science of alchemy. Alchemy is the father
of chemistry. Not only is it a real, operative science in which herbal
tinctures and medicines are made (the science of pharmaceuticals was
created by alchemists), but there is also a philosophical, spiritual
aspect to alchemy that deals with the process of enlightenment, the
process of reconnecting with the true nature of being. When I think of
the times I've seen Widespread out under the stars at Red Rocks, those
were very transformative experiences for me... they were evenings of
alchemical transformation where I was allowed a chance to reconnect with
the true nature of things. My eye was opened. So I will forever
associate Widespread with transcendental experiences and mind altering,
eye opening nights. "